it is with a lot of regret and sadness that I learned of this decision this afternoon. I came to the Senate just 4 rac{1}{2} years ago, which would be about the equivalent of the college degree. During that time, I have gotten to study…

While the parties have been speaking, and we have been in contact with the White House to see how difficult the time schedule in the S. 149 bill would be to meet, I have been told there is no problem meeting those time schedules, that the…

I rise in support of S. 149, the Export Administration Act of 2001. Consideration and passage of this bill are essential for the advancement of our national security, our foreign policy, and our economic interests. I am very excited that…

I am pleased we have had the opening statements that we have had so far, and particularly I am pleased with this colloquy we have just had which shows that we have built some supreme authority into the Presidential position that gives the…

That is why we are concentrating on the multilateral control as opposed to the way we have been doing it which is the unilateral control. Unilateral control does not work. Every report shows that. I also thank the Senator from Tennessee…

I rise today to express some serious concern over the use of workforce investment funds to offset 2001 supplemental appropriations. While I do support additional appropriations for the purposes outlined in the underlying bill, dramatically…

I, too, thank the Senator from Arizona, Mr. Kyl, for bringing this amendment to us. This debate has been framed as though everybody had all of their insurance paid for by the company for which they work. I know that is not the case…

I want to quickly refresh the memory of the Senator from North Carolina. I would not have entered into the time agreement had I known he wasn't listening when I debated the Snowe-DeWine arrangement where I clearly pointed out that it is…

we have spent more than a week debating this version of a Patients' Bill of Rights which would affect the health care coverage of more than 160 million working families who are currently provided insurance by employers on a voluntary…

Under the amendment we just agreed to, we made some progress on handling liability. But there is a group of businesses that were left out. You will never hear me in this Chamber talk about big businesses. I always talk about the small…

this bill is really a strange one for me to be working on at all. Wyoming has one HMO. It is owned by some doctors. So far as I know, there are not any complaints on it. But there are some basic problems here that people in Wyoming are…

Among the handful of principles that are fundamental to any true protection for health care consumers, probably the most important is allowing States to continue in their role as the primary regulator of health insurance. It is because of…

listening to this debate it probably sounds like the Democrats have coined a good phrase, the Patients' Bill of Rights, and they are the only ones in favor of it. It is a good phrase. What we are doing is legislating. Legislating means…

I rise in support of a Patients' Bill of Rights. We need a Patients' Bill of Rights in this country. I spent most of last year working on a conference committee to get a Patients' Bill of Rights. I am told by more senior colleagues that we…

I am not a lawyer; I am an accountant, and I can tell you that this adds up to employers scaling back, even dropping the coverage they now provide. Is this how we propose to protect patients? The problem, at the end of the day, is that…

Mr. President. I rise today to join all of my colleagues in calling for a Patients' Bill of Rights. The President has clearly stated his desire to sign a bill into law, but has also been very clear on what he won't sign. I support his goal…

Boy Scouts has been a part of my education. I am an Eagle Scout. I am pleased to say my son was in Scouts. He is an Eagle Scout. I say it is part of my education because each of the badges that is earned, each of the merit badges that is…

we are debating education, and we are debating a new direction in education. That is what the overall difference is that I address in the amendment. The new direction we are talking about is increased flexibility so that the schools can…

Madam President I rise today to introduce the Veterans Road to Health Care Act 2001. This legislation would raise the travel reimbursement rate for veterans who must travel to Veterans Administration hospitals for treatment. The current…

I rise in support of S. 896, the Restoring Earnings to Lift Individuals and Empower Families, or RELIEF Act of 2001. It is time we ease the tax burden on all American taxpayers and return part of the surplus to the people who created it…

I will be making a motion on the germaneness of the amendment. First, this amendment is not quite as simple as the Senator from New Hampshire says. If a State has a sales tax, the cities, towns, and counties are desperately interested in…

answering on their time, of course, as I have said throughout this whole process on the authorization bill, this is an authorizing process, and we have an appropriations process that comes up later. The amount of dollars allocated would be…

if I can use their time, under this bill, the $1.2 billion that was appropriated last year would come under the formula for this, which would become the current school foundation construction program. So, yes, the $1.2 billion the Senator…

I am pleased today to discuss the Better Education for Students and Teachers Act, the BEST Act. We can never have too much debate on education. It is the future of our country. This legislation achieves the simple yet powerful goal of…

I rise today to support S. 1 and to talk about the motion to proceed on which we have gotten cloture and are now debating, with some limitations on each Senator's time, but still debating whether to proceed on debating education. I haven't…